Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8

CVE-2011-0036 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, leading to memory corruption, related to a "dangling pointer," aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2556 and CVE-2011-0035.

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